BlackFlagged wrote at November 17, 2017 at 5:45 PM
(edited at November 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM)

Communism is stateless, so this isn't technically true, but it's been retconned in thanks to state-capitalism's deliberate perversion of communism to suit their hunger for power/greed or irrational fear of life without police and politicians.

Socialism isn't "transitional," it's simply a state (as in a condition or circumstance, not a nation state) where workers own the means of production (and writ greater, is often meant to mean any society in which all of its resources and productive outputs are used for the greater collective good, this being the assumed logical outcome of non-privatized resources).